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Johnson Entrepreneurship Scholarship [I1077]
| Donor(s): | Chris Johnson |
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| Value: | 1 award of $10,000 (payable over two semesters - $5,000 in each of the fall and winter semesters) |
| Awarded: | In the fall and the recipient must be registered to receive |
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| Deadline: | May 15th |
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Chris Johnson (BComm ’97) is the founder and CEO of Crown Capital Partners. He discovered his inner entrepreneur after graduating from U of G and wants to encourage business students to consider entrepreneurship as a potential career choice. Chris believes that entrepreneurism and innovation is critical for the Canadian economy to prosper. Students are encouraged to apply to the LANG Dean’s Office, or to lang.awards@uoguelph.ca, by May 15th with a letter indicating their entrepreneurial spirit, how they will further foster this spirit (through knowledge and skills acquisition) through projects in their final year of study, and how receiving this scholarship will aid the student in their contributions to Canada’s knowledge-based society, while fostering innovation within it. Selection will be based on the degree of originality and innovation of the applicant’s business ideas and propositions described in the letter.
Students registered in a major offered by the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics who have completed a minimum of 15.0 credits.